Just put paper to pen and write your stream of consciousness."
Sara: "Yeah, you're over thinking it."
Spencer: "But every time I do that I end up rambling!" I protest as I think back to all my drafts. Basically it was just one long declaration without punctuation!
Gage: "But that's you, Spence! You ramble!"
Jessica: "And Ashley will appreciate it so much more."
Spencer: "Not like she really deserves it." I mumble. "She was so childish today." I explain as I shake my head, still upset with how she acted.
Sara: "She's insecure. And obviously something else is going on besides what she's telling you." I nod because I agree. And I'm worried. I sigh again before I stand and stretch.
Spencer: "Okay, I'm off to bed." I say with a yawn.
Kelly: "Will you be sleeping in the room tonight, or are you off somewhere else?" She asks suspiciously. I didn't fill in my friends that I slept in the observatory last night, and apparently neither did Ashley.
Spencer: "Good night." I say playfully before I exit the hole.
Luckily I get to the observatory before she does, but only just. I watch as she gets comfortable on the stage and she doesn't even attempt to play the violin this time. I just watch her from the balcony, slightly leaning over the railing with my chin on my arms.
Ashley: "Good night, Spencer." She whispers loudly. I blanch a little, because this time she definitely meant it for me to hear. She rolls over so that she's facing me and opens her eyes to lock on mine.
Spencer: "Good night, Ashley." I whisper back with a smile that's returned. It's funny, neither one of us can sleep in our room because of the memories of us that it holds. And also so as not to be in such confined quarters with one another and yet, not be in the same bed. That's why we've both separately decided to sleep in the observatory. The added bonus for me was that Ashley was here too. And it seems for her as well.
I get comfy on my makeshift bed before something occurs to me.
Spencer: "Hey, Ash?" I call out to her.
Ashley: "Yeah, Spence?"
Spencer: "When are we having sex?" I hear her chuckle a little and I get up on my knees so I can pear over the balcony's ledge to see her. She rolls over again to look at me from the stage floor.
Ashley: "Um...I don't know, Spencer." She answers, still laughing.
Spencer: "Ash?"
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